Making sawdust

So there's not a ton of work I can do aboard Cupcake when the weather is cold. Instead, I've been picking away at little projects I can take care of in my workshop. 

It may seem like a small thing, but I finished a little spice rack for the galley. It holds 10 jars, is made of teak and cedar, and it gets the job done. Side note: the cedar is from a tree I cut and milled myself. Very Little House on the Prairie.

The other little project I wrapped up over the weekend is an innovation of which I am very proud. For years I've wanted a way to have a vise aboard the boat. But I didn't want to take up a whole lot of space with one and I didn't know how to mount it so I could have a stable platform and still move the vise around when I need. 

This year I realized that a traditional bench vise was big and cumbersome, even a small one. So I got this drill press vise and mounted it on the underside of a storage bin lid. This lid is the one that covers the space where the refrigerator compressor lives, so the space taken up by the vise is otherwise wasted. I'm hopeful the trip will go so smoothly there won't be a need to use the vise, but now I've got one if it's needed.

(The extra holes in the lid could be seen as a measuring error. I choose to think of them as a different mounting option.)